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How many other towns in the country use SmartCard for their
transport?

Reading Buses uses a Smartcard system, which you can load tickets onto or
PAYG. No discounts for using it though, and the tickets are surprisingly
expensive, for a council-run bus service. However, it can get you across
almost 30 miles of countryside, point to point.

The "network" travelcard, as an example, covers from Andover, Hungerford,
Wantage and Lambourne in the West, right out to Twyford, Wokingham and
High Wycombe in the east. A Network Travelcard is £30 a weeek.

http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/smartcard/

Stagecoach and Oxford Buses are introducing a similar system for Oxford.

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Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981